Systems and methods for improving operating characteristics of displays

A display system, comprising:

• a display including a plurality of pixels;
• and
• a display table including:
• a plurality of rows, each row of the display table including a sequence of bit-planes associated with one of a plurality of phase-shift values for one of the pixels in the display, each sequence of bit-planes including a number of 1-values and a number of 0-values;
• each sequence of bit-planes that has at least one 1-value including one or more groups of 1-values having approximately a same number of bit planes;
• each of the one or more groups of 1-values being spaced apart from one another within the sequence of bit-planes by one or more groups of 0-values, each of the one or more groups of 0-values having approximately a same number of bit-planes;
• and
• a display driver configured to send a sequence of bit-planes to the pixel of the display according to the phase-shift value for the pixel and a corresponding row of the display table,
• wherein the plurality of phase-shift values is 2n phase-shift values and wherein, for each sequence of bit-planes where the number of 1-values is greater than one and less than 2n−2, the number of 1-values are distributed across a length of the sequence of bit-planes such that one or more groups of one or more 1-values are spaced apart from one another by one or more groups of one or more 0-values.

A method, comprising:

• generating a display table including a plurality of bit-plane sequences, each bit-plane sequence associated with one of a plurality of phase-shift values for each of a plurality of pixels in a display, the display table including:
• a plurality of rows, each row of the display table including a sequence of bit-planes associated with one of the plurality of phase-shift values for each of the pixels in the display;
• each sequence of bit-planes including a number of 1-values and a number of 0-values and having the 1-values and the 0-values spaced apart within the sequence to reduce phase ripple of a pixel in the plurality of pixels to which the sequence of bit-planes is applied;
• determining a phase-shift value for each the plurality pixels in the display;
• and
• applying, to each of the plurality of pixels in the display, the sequency of bit-planes corresponding to the determined phase-shift value for the pixel,
• wherein determining a phase-shift value for each of the plurality of pixels in the display comprises determining 2n phase-shift values, wherein each of the phase-shift values is associated with a number P in a range 0, 1, . . . , 2n−1, wherein P represents a number of 1-values in a sequence of bit-planes associated with one of the plurality of phase-shift values and 2n−P represents a number of 0-values in the sequence of bit-planes associated with the one of the phase-shift values.